Tag Archives: Michigan
New Huffington Post Piece Now Up
The Crawling King Snake, The Wicked Pickett, And Other Echoes From The Ruins Of Detroit’s Musical Past My full article can be found here © 2012, American … Continue reading
Forgotten Moments by Sean Posey
Abandoned Beauty Shop, Detroit, MI The past half century or so witnessed an awesome change in America’s “Industrial Belt.” First, massive suburbanization and white flight, then economic “restructuring” and de-industrialization battered away at fabled cities like Gary, Buffalo, and Youngstown. … Continue reading
An Interview With Russell Marshall
Russell Marshall’s photography reflects a life spent living among the factory workers and street characters in his long-time home of Detroit, MI. One can sense a present empathy in his depictions of lone individuals walking the city streets and an … Continue reading
Detroit: Cultural Prodrome
Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes By Kathy Toth Driving around Detroit you feel as if you have entered an exclusion zone. Yet there was no war; there was no radioactive … Continue reading
Detroit: Ruins of the American Dream
“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.” —Martin Scorcese I hadn’t been near Detroit in over a decade, and had never entered the city … Continue reading